April ends in Paris, too . . .
Tuesday, April 29, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . The weatherfeather indicates moderate Northerlies are to bring thunderstorms to TulsyTown today and tomorrow. Some could be severe with strong winds and heavy rain.
On the road again. Sunday night, Illinois governor Pritzker’s speech in New Hampshire drew standing ovation applause as he urged Democrats to abandon efforts to compromise with “a madman.” The 2028 presidential campaign has begun in earnest. – Maeve Reston,
Daniel Day-Lewis turns 68 today. The multiple Academy Award actor laureate was born in 1957, London, England. He is returning to film after a seven-year “retirement.”
Michelle Pfeiffer turns 66 today. The multiple award winning actor was born in 1958, Santa Ana, California.
England's Prince William and duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton are celebrating their 14th wedding anniversary today.
Today is Duke Ellington's birthday. The king of the jazz orchestra was born in 1899 Washington, D.C.
As April is ending, it's only fitting that we visit Paris before it goes one more once.
Curses and blesssings of the pen . . .
Monday, April 28, 2025. It's a new Moon's day . . . It's to become a cloudy day in TulseyTown and strong Southerlies are forecasted steady to 20 with gusts to 40 mph. Theweatherfeather says upper 70's with rain chances increasing tonight into definitely tomorrow.
[L]ooking for another language in which to communicate – the language of the unconscious. And, of course, it comes from birds. – Maria Popova, in The Margialian.
Lots of date reminders filled the mailbox this morning.
Today in 1947 Norwegian ethnologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and a small crew set sail from Peru aboard the primitive raft Kon-Tiki. They arrived in Polynesia three and a half months later.
Chef and author Alice Waters turns 81 today. Born in 1944 Chatham, New Jersey, she established Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, marking the beginning of the farm-to-table movement.
It's Harper Lee's birthday. The author of To Kill a Mockingbird was born on this day in 1926 Monroeville, Alabama.
Today is Robert Anderson's birth date. The playwright, screenwriter, Academy Award nominee and theatrical producer was born in 1917 New York City.
It's the birth date of the Academy Award, stage and radio actor Lionel Barrymore. Perhaps the least flamboyant member of the Barrymore acting family was born in 1878, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Penélope Cruz turn 51 today. The Academy Award laureate international actress was born in 1974, Madrid, Spain
Carolyn Forché turns 74 today. The poet, editor, professor, translator, and human rights advocate was born in 1950 Detroit, Michigan.
"No one is a great poet because she is a miserable drunk. No one is a great poet because he has had a nervous breakdown. Suffering, however, can be experienced as a curse or a blessing; the luckiest is the one who can experience it as a blessing." – Carolyn Forché
Peaceful insurrection . . .
Sunday, April 27, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . taking a rest behind clouds most of the day over TulseyTown. Easy Southerlies are in the forecasts with low 80's. The Moon is New.
A light has gone out in our troubled world. Nathan Gardels, Noēma, 4.26.25.
What if our celebration of Easter was so radical in its meaning that it tempted tyrants and dictators everywhere to make it illegal, because it represents the ultimate scandal: an annual call for creative and peaceful insurrection against all status quos based on fear, hostility, exclusion, and violence? – Brian McLaren, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 4.25.25
Speaking of peaceful insurrections against the status quo: Today is the birth date of Mary Wollstonecraft. The author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was born in 1759 London, England.
[A]n executive order is simply a directive to federal employees. It cannot override the Constitution. Trump’s attack on the idea of birthright citizenship as a “historical myth” is a perversion of our history. – Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From An American, 4.26.25
Dictators are adept at eroding democracy into a shell of itself, little more than an empty facade. Interfering with the judiciary is one of the keys to getting there. – Joyce Vance, in today's Civil Discourse.
The Cimarron
– Even silence can feel, to the world, like happiness – Mary Oliver
The mountains, where I've been the past several weeks,
seem profoundly happy in their silent
stillness.
Their shared silence and the sound of this pen
on the page brings a peace not unlike that of
snow.
Falling snow-flakes are the silent words of
the Cimarron.
– james